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The bloc’s top diplomat has admitted that not all member states see Russia as a “strategic threat” Josep Borrell, the top diplomat of the European Union, has emphasized the potentially severe consequences…

Fesco is now shipping cargo between Novorossiysk and Alexandria The FESCO Egypt Direct Line (FEDL) has been launched by FESCO Transportation Group, connecting Alexandria, Egypt, with Novorossiysk, Russia, with no need for…

Volkswagen, Audi, And Porsche Adopt Tesla EV Plug As NACS Becomes Gold Standard The Volkswagen Group announced its brands, VW, Audi, and Porsche, will be integrating Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS) plug into…

The French president says the legislation undercuts the right-wing National Rally party, which supported it in parliament The ruling Renaissance Party has joined forces with the right-wing National Rally (RN) in France…

Anticipated rate cuts by the Federal Reserve are fueling investor enthusiasm and boosting the Russian currency In a plot twist to the year-end financial narrative, Federal Reserve Chairman Jay Powell has delivered…

The Ukraine Situation Is A Failure Of Strategy And Leadership Authored by András László via ReMix News, Additional funding for Ukraine has been delayed both on behalf of the U.S. and the…

Kiev’s manpower is “significantly worn out” as Russia’s “attrition strategy” is taking effect, a former German Air Force Colonel has said Around 800 Ukrainian troops are being killed and wounded daily amid…

West Jerusalem has reportedly proposed to halt its Gaza offensive for a week in exchange for the release of hostages Hamas has rejected an Israeli offer to cease fighting in exchange for…

International Tourism Approaches Pre-Pandemic Levels While few industries have been spared by the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic over the past three years, even fewer have been hit as hard as the tourism…

France’s Le Pen Hails New Immigration Bill As “Ideological Victory” Authored by Denes Albert via ReMix News, Aid to non-EU migrants will be subject to a five-year residency requirement… An ad-hoc committee…

The threat follows news of Washington planning to set up a coalition to stop attacks on cargo vessels US warships will be attacked if Yemen’s Houthis are targeted by Washington, the group’s…

The online accommodation platform has been accused of tricking Australians to pay in US dollars Online accommodation provider Airbnb has been fined by an Australian court AU$15 million (US$10 million) and ordered…

The average customs agent will not be able to distinguish between gems of different origin, the CEO of De Beers says It is almost impossible for customs agents to distinguish Russian diamonds…

In an effort to keep the Daily Open Thread a little more open topic we are going to start a new daily thread for “Presidential Politics”. Please use this thread to post…

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And…

Moscow’s soccer authorities have rejected a switch to Asia’s confederation The Russian Football Union (RFU) will “fight” for its membership in European football’s governing body, according to a top sports official. The…

What Donald Trump’s Ukraine Strategy Could Look Like Authored by Lt. General (ret.) Keith Kellogg and Dan Negrea via The National Interest, Far from abandoning Ukraine, a second Trump administration would lift…

China Is Keeping The Lights On The Christmas Tree This Year While Santa’s factories are rumored to be hidden in the mountains of Lapland (or at the North Pole, depending on who…

Straw Poll Shows Young Trump Voters Want Carlson Or Vivek As VP Authored by Philip Wegmann via RealClear Wire, Young Republican voters overwhelmingly want Donald Trump to be the GOP nominee in…

What A Load Of Rubbish: The Global State Of Waste Management The safe management of household and commercial solid waste is not yet widespread in many nations in Asia and Africa. The latter…

Jack Smith Requests Written Jury Questionnaire In Trump Classified Documents Case Authored by Caden Pearson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), On Tuesday, federal prosecutors asked the Florida judge presiding over former…

The ‘1%’ Are Responsible For 15% Of Global Emissions From a historical perspective, the current demand for natural resources has surged to unprecedented levels and continues to escalate—for both essential needs like…

The Untold Stories About Smallpox Vaccines Authored by Yuhong Dong via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), In the rich tapestry of medical science, vaccines stand out as monumental achievements lauded for their…

Throughout the timeline of human endeavors, do you know what the greatest story is?  It’s the comeback story.  From the divinity of the resurrection to the great stories of human achievement; the…

Kim Jong-un said Pyongyang will not “hesitate” to use nuclear weapons, if provoked North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has praised the country’s military for the successful test-launch of a long-range intercontinental ballistic…

The Days Of Using Dating Apps For Free Are Long Gone The good ole’ days of using dating apps for free appear to be long gone. Now, such apps are “borderline unusable”…

Biden Vetoes Repeal Of ‘Woke’ Lending Rule Authored by Samantha Flom via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A controversial Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) small business lending rule will remain in effect…

Where Americans Shop For The Holidays After a year of high prices, high interest rates and high economic uncertainty, American consumers would have been excused for cutting back on their spending this…

Here’s Why Tearing Down Satanic Statues Is Perfectly Acceptable In Our “Constitutional Society” Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, In recent articles I’ve been discussing the ways in which the political left…

Yes, Talking Heads, We ARE Paying Attention Authored by Frank Miele via RealClear Wire, For the last year, ever since Donald Trump announced his run for a second non-consecutive term as president,…

Malaysia has made the move to protest “atrocities” against the Palestinians in Gaza Malaysia will not allow Israeli-flagged ships or vessels headed for Israel to dock or load cargo in its ports,…

San Fran Office Market Has Not Bottomed  The Federal Reserve’s pivot from aggressive monetary tightening to the possibility of (pre-emptice) rate-cuts has spurred talk about whether 2024 will be a ‘no landing’…

There Were At Least 19 Campus Hate-Crime Hoaxes In 2023 Authored by Matt Lamb via The College Fix, Fake racist fans, racist graffiti written by Hispanic students… just a normal year There…

Self-Checkout Kiosks At 4,500 Walmarts Now Offer ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Loans For Basic Items “Buy now, pay later” (BNPL) loans surged in popularity during Black Friday and Cyber Monday in late November. As…

Letting Kiev into the bloc would mean WWIII, Slovakian PM Robert Fico has said Slovakia will not agree to letting Ukraine become a member of NATO, Prime Minister Robert Fico has said…

In this brief prelude segment, Tucker Carlson discusses the bigger picture of the Colorado Supreme Court decision to block Donald Trump from the 2024 republican presidential primary ballot. {Direct Rumble Link} As…

Pennsylvania Abruptly Cuts Short Contract With Voter Registration Firm Authored by Beth Brelje via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The State of Pennsylvania terminated its contract earlier this month with a firm…

Lack of assimilation threatens the multinational society, Patriarch Kirill has warned Russia will be lost if the current immigration trends continue, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow,…

36 Million Customers Affected In Massive Comcast Data Breach Your holiday present from Comcast has arrived, in the form of a massive data breach that has compromised the personal information of nearly…

Folks, before getting to the substance of what you are about to see and hear, let me point out something very serious. When you listen to the gleeful whispers of demons on…

Understanding Anti-Capitalist Fallacies Authored by Roberto Ledezma via The Mises Institute, Capitalism, defined as a form of social organization in which there are means of production such as private property and wage…

The city of Dnepr has decided to strip Leonid Brezhnev of his honorary citizen title as part of the “de-communization” campaign Authorities of the Ukrainian city of Dnepr on Wednesday revoked the title…

Of Course: Biden Admin Linked To Trump Ballot Ban In Colorado While many are focusing on the Ivy League Democrats on Colorado’s Supreme Court who voted to kick Donald Trump off the…

The Russian president could be invited to the anniversary of the Normandy landings French President Emmanuel Macron has not ruled out the possibility of inviting Russian President Vladimir Putin to the 80th…

Uber-Hawk Graham Blows A Gasket At Report Xi Warned Biden He Plans To Reunify Taiwan With China Never wanting to waste an opportunity to out-hawk everyone else, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham issued…

The opening of a second front could result in disaster for Western Jerusalem. Then why are politicians even discussing this? Tensions on the Israeli-Lebanese border appear to be in serious danger of…

62% Of Americans Live Paycheck-To-Paycheck And The Bottom Of The Economic Food Chain Is Already Collapsing Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, Thanks to a soaring stock market, the…

‘Margin Calls & Massive Put-Buying’ – Stocks & Bond Yields Puke As Goldilocks Dies Existing home sales beat (bouncing modestly off record lows), consumer confidence jumped (as inflation expectations declined and labor…

Hostages On The Line. Fears Of Bigger Regional War. Here’s The Commander-in-Chief… One thing that all sides and pundits can universally agree on regarding the Israel-Hamas war is the extreme danger it…

“You Expect Me To Tip For That?”: Americans Are Tired Of Tipflation By Sam Bourgi of CreditNews American tipping culture has spiraled out of control, with more consumers opposed to higher service…

Beijing would like to reunify Taipei with mainland China peacefully, Xi Jinping reportedly told the US president in November China is intent on reunifying with Taiwan, President Xi Jinping openly told US…

General Mills Says “Value-Seeking” Consumers Complicate Outlook General Mills shares fell at the beginning of the US cash session after the package food company reported a decline in quarterly sales. It slashed…

The top diplomat says Washington aims to ensure that continued financial support for Ukraine will not be necessary US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said that Washington has a clear strategy…

From bases to embedded officers, London is reportedly helping Washington in places like Somalia The British military has quietly played a “significant role” in operations of the US Africa Command (AFRICOM) for…

US liberals continue to neglect the age-old truism that “those who forget their history are condemned to repeat it” There are no safe spaces left anywhere in America, especially if you’re an…

“Inaction Is Unacceptable” – California Lawmakers Create First Retail Theft Committee Amid Surging Crime Authored by Travis Gillmore via The Epoch Times, While videos of smash-and-grab robberies in California circulating on social…

Two Former Green Berets Among Americans Freed In Rare Venezuela Deal Major deal-making between Washington and the government of President Nicolas Maduro, long under US sanctions, has clearly been progressing. It follows…

Russian football authorities had been considering a switch to Asia’s 47-member confederation The Russian Football Union (RFU) has voted against pursuing membership in the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) as it seeks renewed…

Google To ‘Limit’ Answers To Election Queries On Bard AI Tool & Generative Search Authored by Savannah Fortis via CoinTelegraph.com, Google released a blog post on Dec 19 explaining its plans to implement restrictions…

Don’t Get Too Excited Over The Latest Epstein ‘John Doe’ List According to the Daily Mail, a New York federal judge has ordered the release of a cache of documents related to…

Bitcoin Rallies As BlackRock, Nasdaq Hold Second Meeting With SEC Regarding Spot ETF By Sam Reynolds of CoinDesk.com Representatives from BlackRock (BLK), Nasdaq, and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) met for…

Ugly 20Y Auction Sees Biggest Tail Since Oct 2022, Surge In Dealers With secondary market yields tumbling in recent days following the Fed pivot, traders were closely watching today’s 20Y auction to…

Colorado GOP Unveils ‘Caucus’ Loophole After State Supremes Boot Trump From Ballot In response to the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to bar former President Donald Trump from appearing on state ballots, the…

The whistleblower says she was targeted for retaliation Former US Senate aide Tara Reade, who has accused US President Joe Biden of sexually assaulting her while serving as a senator, filed a…

Ledger Crypto Wallet To Reimburse Users After Hack Authored by Helen Partz via Cointelegraph.com, Ledger says some $600,000 in assets were stolen from users’ blind signing on EVM DApps, and it will…

Nawaz Sharif says country’s woes should not be blamed on India, the US, or Afghanistan  Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif has blamed internal issues, including military interference in politics and…

Opposition party MPs have occupied the headquarters of Warsaw’s public TV station in protest of sweeping media reforms The Polish state TV channel TVP went dark on Wednesday morning as Prime Minister…

Market Continues To Shrug Off Efforts By Fed Policymakers To Push Back On Rate Cut Expectations By Jane Foley, Senior FX strategist at Rabobank Donald Trump may be the front-runner for the…

Slovakia will not follow its neighbor’s lead and freeze Russian assets on its territory, Prime Minister Robert Fico has said Slovakia has no intention of following its neighbor’s example and seizing Russian…

The shipping giant had previously suspended its Red Sea route following Houthi attacks Danish shipping group Maersk announced on Tuesday that its vessels due to transit the Red Sea and Gulf of…

South Africa’s foreign minister says Moscow’s involvement would facilitate ‘steps toward’ a formal negotiating process A negotiated outcome in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine requires “the two parties around the table,”…

X Marks The Spot: Social Media’s Last Stand Authored by Michael Rectenwald via The Mises Institute, Ever since Elon Musk acquired Twitter, now X, the censorship regime has been hell-bent on harassing…

Ramaswamy Threatens To Boycott Colorado Primary, Turley Rages, And Luntz Warns Of ‘Backfiring’ Lawfare Against Trump In response to the Colorado Supreme Court’s Tuesday ruling that former President Donald Trump is ineligible…

WTI Slides After US Crude Productions Hits New Record High, Inventories Rise Across The Board Oil prices were higher again this morning (3rd day in a row, at two week highs) as…

US Consumer Confidence Rose In November, But ‘Family Financial Conditions’ Worsened US Consumer Confidence rebounded strongly in November according to the latest survey from The Conference Board, beating expectations across the board….

American diplomats also found the country’s media reporting on Julian Assange “sensationalist,” the paper claims The American embassy in Australia monitored rallies in support of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for “anti-US sentiment,”…

Overdose-related deaths are the highest they’ve ever been in the UK, and a super-strong new drug is hitting the streets Major cities in the UK may risk facing a similar epidemic of…

Federal judges have sided with the Bavarian government in its litigation against an atheist group The authorities in Bavaria have the right to demand that Christian crosses be placed in all government…

Majority Of Democrats Want Hunter Prosecuted For Contempt; Harvard/Harris Poll Finds Authored by Jonathan Turley, It appears that the concerted effort to excuse Hunter Biden’s defiance of a subpoena in the media…

US Existing Home Sales Unexpectedly Limp Higher In Nov, Off Record Lows Despite homebuilder sentiment ticking up (along with their stock prices) and housing starts soaring – buoyed by a 100bps decline…

Roman Abramovich denies allegations that he is benefiting from the Ukraine conflict Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich has denied reaping benefits from the Ukraine conflict after an EU court refused to remove sanctions…

“Tesla Wannabe” EV Names Have Run Out Of Cash, As SPAC-Crazed Bubble Bursts As EV market saturation continues, the tide is going out on many “Tesla wannabe” startup companies who couldn’t commercialize…

Pornhub, XVideos and Stripchat will now fall under new online content rules under the Digital Services Act The EU has added some of the most popular adult websites – Pornhub, Stripchat and…

The Russian foreign minister has expressed his hope that the UN Security Council will soon support an early ceasefire in Gaza Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived on Wednesday in Marrakech, Morocco…

It’s Been A Surprisingly Good Year For Global Financial Assets Authored by Simon White, Bloiomberg macro strategist, Nearly all global stock indexes and bond indexes have posted gains year-to-date in 2023, despite…

The endgame for the conflict has become clearer and this is what it will involve The conflict in Ukraine has unleashed a rare wave of emotion in Russian society, and, indeed, around the…

The measures will aim to limit numbers and spread responsibility for hosting arrivals more evenly across the bloc The EU has agreed to limit the number of migrants entering the bloc, and…

From Magnificent 7 To A New Team: Conquering Bandwagon Bias Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, As investors cheer on the Magnificent 7, some football fans are forging new allegiances in hopes…

BoE Rate-Cut Odds Soar, Cable Tumbles After UK Inflation Slows Far More Than Expected UK inflation slowed far more than economists forecast in November, prompting traders to increase bets that the Bank…

Hyundai’s exit from Russia will reportedly cost the company over $200 million South Korean auto giant Hyundai has announced plans to sell its plant in Russia as the carmaker completes its exit…

Futures Slide, Brent Jumps Back Over $80 As Red Sea Woes Spread US equity futures and global markets reversed their torrid rally as bonds rallied and the dollar gained after a fresh…

100 Container Ships Diverted, Insurance Surges As Red Sea Chaos Worsens Global transport and logistics company Kuehne + Nagel International AG reports more than 100 container ships have been rerouted from the Red…

On Thursday, India’s 43rd scientific expedition sets sail to research stations in the southern polar region, to study the melting of glaciers, the making of monsoons, and the synthesis of high-quality gold…

Some Brussels officials are concerned about possible retaliation from Moscow, the paper says Not all European countries are in favor of seizing frozen Russian assets and using them to fund Ukraine, the…

Republican Rich McCormick has insisted Washington must escalate the Ukraine conflict to ensure victory The US must ensure Russia does not defeat Ukraine in order to preserve America’s global hegemony, Republican Congressman…

The Indian leader told the Financial Times “a few incidents” should not hinder diplomatic relations between the two countries Prime Minister Narendra Modi has for the first time reacted to US prosecutors’…

Discussing the settlement of the Ukraine conflict without Moscow makes no sense, spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said The “peace formula” promoted by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has no chance to succeed without Russia’s…

Sosthene Munyemana has been found guilty of crimes against humanity, nearly three decades after a genocide in the African nation A former Rwandan doctor, Sosthene Munyemana, has been sentenced to 24 years…

The Fed’s Empire Of Speculation And The Echoes Of 1929 Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Speculation has its own expiration dynamics, and they don’t depend on us recognizing speculative…

The US has launched Operation Prosperity Guardian, attempting to curb Yemeni rebel assaults on shipping in the Red Sea Pentagon officials are worried about the growing cost of countering Yemeni Houthi drone…